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Imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War
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A name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
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A group of nine British soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing five and wounding six men. Between the British soldiers and a crown of colonist in Boston
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This act was an act by the Parliament of Great Britian that put taxes on the tea that people bought to drink.
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A group of about 70 men boarded on three British ships in the Boston harbor and threw their tea cargo in the sea.
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The American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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The Battle of lexington had started and this was the spark the began The American Revolutionary War.
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This was the first great battle of the Revolutionary War. Fought near Boston.
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A document drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to rebel against inadequate government.
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US Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
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This is marked as the turning point of the American Revolution.
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The United States and France sign the French Alliance which promised military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future.
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Lord Cornwallis accepted the terms of surrender. Armed hostilities continued but with the Surrender of Yorktown, the American War of Independence was practically over.
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On this day the United States and Great Britian signed the Treaty of Paris and this ended the American Revolution
